Definition of "etymologizing" []

• Present participle of etymologize. (verb)

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• "He shares the almost immemorial use of exegetical etymologizing, which is finally canonized in the encyclopedic Etymologiae of"
• ""Five beks" sounds like classic folk etymologizing or eggcorning to me, and if it were even remotely plausible I think Pospelov would have mentioned it."
• "Here Plato applies an extremely loose and ad hoc method of etymologizing in which (to use Voltaire's quip made two thousand years later) the consonants counted for little and the vowels for nothing at all."